They were born with their brains wired to the internet, so they're aware of global and local problems, and here is where the FRUSTRATION ingredient enters … They can't stand seeing that people lack access to education, to housing, to clean water, to health, to finance … They're frustrated that LAC has lots of natural resources but its outmoded industries can't bring them to markets efficiently.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as keen as anyone for the seismic shift in the way we deploy resources and an end to our outmoded make-use-throwaway-and-just-make-another culture that's pushing us towards an "environmental and social abyss".
Modernizing and expanding our capacity to maintain an outmoded strategy dealing with an obsolete threat only wastes resources.
All of the state's water is considered a public resource, but it is controlled under an outmoded system known as "first in time, first in right", which took hold when the state was settled starting in the late 1850s.
And now here we are in a world of high information technology — and people think it's smart, nay cutting-edge, to create a sort of virtual currency whose creation requires wasting real resources in a way Adam Smith considered foolish and outmoded in 1776.
But Marlinspike says that sort of threat is less realistic: Verisign has since stopped using the outmoded MD5 encryption, and most cybercriminals don't have the resources necessary to break stronger codes.
"Now here we are in a world of high information technology -- and people think it's smart, nay cutting-edge, to create a sort of virtual currency whose creation requires wasting real resources in a way Adam Smith considered foolish and outmoded in 1776," he wrote in the Friday post.
The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis are all a reflection of an outmoded and fossilised economic paradigm – a paradigm that grew out of mobilising resources for war by creating the category of 'growth', and one that is rooted in the age of oil and fossil fuels.
While additional resources are needed for inspection and enforcement, the big dollars needed are for replacing outmoded infrastructure.
While there have been questions in past cycles about media organizations pouring too many resources into highly scripted conventions, rumblings only seem to be growing that the current convention model is irretrievably outmoded.
They waste enormous amounts of time and emotional energy by arguing about space and "faculty lines" and resources, while walling off disciplines from innovative approaches to knowledge and restricting students and faculty alike to narrow, often outmoded paths of inquiry.
